Trainers,
v0.77.1 was announced today with a number of wide-ranging changes to-date, including a number of significant bugfixes and a few better life upgrades:
- A confirmation dialogue now appears when attempting to transfer costumed Pokémon.
- Costumed Pokémon can no longer be mass-transferred.
- Resolved a bug causing occasional network errors while battling in Gyms.
- Resolved a bug causing Raid Battle lobbies to display the incorrect number of Trainers preparing for battle.
- Resolved a bug causing the Pokémon selected in the Raid Battle lobby to be reset after clicking the items button.
- Resolved a bug where some Curveballs weren’t registering properly.
- Various bug fixes and performance updates.
So lets start with data mining v0.77.1 :
Firstly, the bug fixes:
- The Curveball Fix
While we haven’t had time to sufficiently test this particular issue, Niantic claims to have resolved the well-known issue where in curveballs were not being applied when used by the trainer. A new attribute called the “curveBallModifierApplied” has been added to the game, which appears to hint that a client-side change has been applied along with the update.
- Lobby Count & Avatar List bug fix
Parts of the game have been reworked from the client-side perspective referring also to the avatar list in Raid lobbies.
Fixes appear to center around keeping track of the list, public player profile rendering (the ones which already in-game, not a new feature),as well as its order and new behind-the-scenes ways of retrieving the current lobby in the game.
Hopefully this will help to keep an accurate live count of those in the lobby who are moving forward!
- New Error Codes
Niantic’s effort to curtail the “network errors while battling in Gyms,” the following new error codes have been added to the error library involving the Raids:
- RAID_BATTLE_GYM_NOT_FOUND
- RAID_BATTLE_RAID_UNAVAILABLE
- RAID_BATTLE_INVALID_ATTACKERS
- RAID_BATTLE_PLAYER_BELOW_MINIMUM_LEVEL
- RAID_BATTLE_NO_TICKET
- ERROR_INVALID_SERVER
- ERROR_NEVER_JOINED_BATTLE
Though more of descriptive error codes are expected, and hopefully continued efforts to improve networking will reduce the lockouts and networking troubles that the players often face.
ONE NEW FEATURE HAS BEEN ADDED IN THE MODIFIED APK
- New Push Notification Setting
THE new push notification has a toggle push for the defenders who are falling short on Motivation
Previously, TogglePokemonReturnPushNotification had already been added to the APK, but the new toggleLowMotivationPushNotification has now been added and the Settings UI has been updated.
Here’s hoping these push notifications make it out in time to help defend your turf in a much better manner!
The final major addition in this APK, however, is the most exciting:
- Support for Gen III Pokemon Forms: Deoxys and Castform
Some Pokemon in each Generation bend the rules of how typical Pokemon are classified. Examples of this are Ditto, Unown, shinies, and thanks to Niantic’s approach, party hats and other event-specific variants.
In Pokemon GO, special species that have variants have what are called “forms.” Before Unown could launch in-game, its ‘forms’ were added to the APK.
We have good news:
Support for two new species’ forms of Pokemon rom Gen III have been added in the v0.77.1 APK, they are:
- Deoxys: where all 4 of its forms have been added
- Normal Form
- Attack Form
- Defense Form
- Speed Form
All Four Forms of Deoxys
- Castform: who has had 4 forms added as well
- Normal
- Sunny
- Rainy
- Snowy
All Four Forms of castform
This groundwork is necessary before these species could appear in Pokemon GO, so we’re excited to see this progress towards the very own Gen III!
Notably, Gen III sound files for Pokemon ‘cries’ or ‘sounds’ have not been added to the APK just yet, so Gen III wont be launching tomorrow along with the update,But we’re getting close to the Generation III Update.
That’s it for now guys
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